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Post by frederickthemad on Jun 29, 2019 14:53:33 GMT
Hi everyone! Since my group thought they wanted to descend into the Dungeon of the Mad Mage with me, I figured I'd need some Dungeon Tiles, another new thing to figure out.  You can see that it's been influenced a lot by how Wyloch does his, except I have not used cardboard, but just foamcore, with a cardstock bottom. I wanted to use as little materials, consumables and tools as possible. Basically 2 materials, 3 colors of hobby paint, and just a few basic tools and glue. Like Wyloch, I opted for a bigger-than-1-inch grid. But since here, everything is metric, I went with 3x3cm for each square, so 6x6cm tiles. Given the thickness of the foamcore, that will leave roughly the same room available for walls, so that in corners, and next to walls, miniatures have enough room to still stand. They're very lightweight and after pva sealing seem very durable.. but thus a little slippy on the table perhaps.. but I also have an old whiteboard, that I'll strip the edge off and take one 'sheet' off one side, and since it's magnetic, I'll put a small magnet in the bottom of each tile, that should work like a sort of fridge-magnet idea.. only on the tabletop. I also made a little fireplace/campfire kind of thing so far, with a tealight, which gives a nice effect. And did some pillars, some bigger ones (full cover) and some smaller ones (half cover). More types of tiles, more dressing, pillars, special tiles, special 'walls', sectret doors, and lots of furnishings on the to-do list.. Here's some pictures.. although I might re-do the lot and get it a little better still.. and this time I'll be sure to use black foamcore.. saves a lottle time re-blackbombing all the little white spots that pop open (not the best paint I guess, for this product) hehe.. Hope you guys approve! I haven't shown my players yet.. can't wait hehe. Kind regards, Fred          |
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Post by margaret on Jun 30, 2019 2:38:15 GMT
Looks great! Fun times for your players...
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Post by frederickthemad on Jun 30, 2019 3:39:32 GMT
Thanks very much! I appreciate that! And yes I hope they will be. Though they always are anyway.  Oh I forgot a picture of that little campfire thing, with the led tealight;  |
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Post by sgtslag on Jul 1, 2019 3:16:41 GMT
Beautiful work! Looks professional, like something off of a Kickstarter. Thanks for sharing. Your players are going to love playing on this terrain... Cheers!
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Post by factoriatabletop on Jul 1, 2019 3:31:17 GMT
what a nice looking dungeon!
i noticed you said there are a little slippy on the table, i found the same issue with mines...
i just add a " poker matt " ( green ones...dont know how to say it in english) and no more problems...tiles stick well on a matt!
best regards,
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Post by frederickthemad on Jul 1, 2019 5:10:45 GMT
Hi fellas!! Beautiful work! Looks professional, like something off of a Kickstarter. Thanks for sharing. Your players are going to love playing on this terrain... Cheers! Professional he says.. errm.. Thou maketh thyne fellow crafter blush.. hehe. Nah, It's a little wonky and wobbly for sure, but then with my relatively poor eyesight, I'm happy all that cutting didn't have me end up in the emergency room.. although besides me, that would probably alos have had my players in stitches lolll.  Thanks so much for your kind words!! what a nice looking dungeon! i noticed you said there are a little slippy on the table, i found the same issue with mines... i just add a " poker matt " ( green ones...dont know how to say it in english) and no more problems...tiles stick well on a matt! best regards, Thanks very much, I appreciate that, and the tip too!! I was also thinking of some kind of cloth or felt or mat or such. But the magnet idea could also work. I already put a magnet in a few of them and they stick to the fridge just fine.. the minatures keep falling off though lol.. But so far they seem to not move much at all, unless a player would do something silly at or to the table, but they wouldn't dare, lest the Dungeon Master suddenly starts.. smiling.. Thanks guys! your compliments and any and all tips or pointers are always much appreciated, I hope I have more to show off soon. I'm Going through the adventure now to see what I need, and if I can pull that off to make. To be continued.... |
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Post by skunkape on Jul 1, 2019 13:12:53 GMT
I agree, great looking terrain!
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Post by frederickthemad on Jul 2, 2019 5:47:23 GMT
Thank you, sir, much appreciated!! |
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Post by frederickthemad on Jul 5, 2019 7:19:20 GMT
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Post by sgtslag on Jul 5, 2019 13:44:35 GMT
Very nice! Very nice, indeed! Let us know what your players thought, please? Cheers!
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Post by frederickthemad on Jul 6, 2019 9:23:51 GMT
Thank you very much, sir!!! They LOVED it. When I took the first few pieces out, one of ém asked me where I'd bought those tiles... ok just at first glance, but still a great compliment. But seeing it was all home made actually made a bigger impression, judging by their faces as I pulled out box after box of the stuff. Hehe. They had a nice combat encounter that showed off a basic bit of the 'tile-set', but I thought it wasn't doing enough yet with the more specific pieces, so where a hallway had a dead-end in the official text of the module, I just made up a new set of rooms, one of them plunged into the spike pit by being his clumsy over-confident (other) self, they got jumped by a pack of nasties due to the noise, a great fight arose and they used a lot of the terrain to their advantage, specifically lines of fire and such.. We have a grid, but we play more or less semi gridless. It's more for reference, and cause, well it looks like a stone slab floor in a dungeon.. But yeah, they are more 'free' to move where-ever they want within their range, so they could do cool things around corners, pillars and other features. That just doesn't seem to naturally happen on a flip-mat even though it's the same principle... So yeah, they found it very immersing and just basically cool as poopy. Cheers! |
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Post by factoriatabletop on Jul 8, 2019 12:35:41 GMT
love the designs of your dungeons! very well done!!!! wow, your friends had to be like...whaaaaaaat¿¿¿  i would like to show you my tiles style...is similar to Wyloch and dmg / dm scotty´s but i prefer walls... yep, cant imagine play without walls     also i made some pillars that comes really nice to me... cheers!!! |
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Post by sgtslag on Jul 8, 2019 18:39:53 GMT
Full-height walls work well if the table is well below eye-height; for example, when everyone is standing, looking down at a normal height tabletop holding the terrain. If your players are seated at a normal height table, the full walls will block much of their line of sight of the terrain, forcing them to stand up, to see everything. That is why the luminaries recommend short, or no walls, at the tabletop.
I go both ways: for my RPG sessions, I usually go with flat terrain (either 2D dungeon tiles, or markers on a vinyl battlemat); for my mini's games, I go full 3D terrain, as we will definitely be standing around the tabletop, looking down on the terrain.
For my RPG sessions, I usually go with a mix of Theater of the Mind, and 2-2.5D terrain, as needed, for major combat sequences. I found that using mini's, and some sort of terrain, reduced the number of arguments as to which character was where, when the wounds start flying:
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Player -- "I wasn't there! I was over here!"
DM -- "Your figure was there, not here. I go by where your figure is placed. Sorry."
Player -- "Crap!!! I was hoping you wouldn't notice I left him over there..."
DM -- [Smiles, as he picks up the dead PC's Record Sheet, and reaches to turn on his paper shredder...]
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Just kidding... (Well, not entirely.) Cheers!
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Post by frederickthemad on Jul 11, 2019 15:41:58 GMT
love the designs of your dungeons! very well done!!!! wow, your friends had to be like...whaaaaaaat¿¿¿ i would like to show you my tiles style...is similar to Wyloch and dmg / dm scotty´s but i prefer walls... yep, cant imagine play without walls Thanks very much for your kind words!!! I really appreciate that! Your tiles look awesome, great look and colorscheme!! I do have a love-hate relationship with walls, I'm pretty much of a same mind as the good sergeant here, but that's also the beauty of crafting, you can make it any way you like. I actually did try a few different heights first but ended up with walls that are about a 1/2 the height of the width of a single square. Feels like a good balance. And my players and I are lazy, we want to stay seated during play haha.. |
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Post by frederickthemad on Jul 11, 2019 15:47:56 GMT
Oh and I guess while I'm at it, I might show a few new bits that I needed for the current campaign, in upcoming rooms. I made a couple of fountain/basin tiles, inside the foamboard it's just two halves of a bottlecap. I'm planning some 'inserts' for them to simlulate different fluids, be it water, blood, whatever. And a little forge, which came out alright, it has a stripped down flickering led tealight in it, although the effect is a little hard to spot on a still photograph, I would think. Also a first attempt of a wood floor tile, eventually to make some building tiles as well.   |
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Post by sgtslag on Jul 11, 2019 17:39:19 GMT
Beautiful workmanship! Cheers!
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Post by frederickthemad on Jul 13, 2019 15:43:01 GMT
Thanks so much, Sarge!! Much appreciated! Oh in case anyone wonders, that forge is basically just a sandwich of layers of foamboard. The bottom 2 layers are a square O shape for the base of the tea light. Then the 'worktop' layer has a hole where the light is. I glued a little bit of transparant plastic over that hole, and then stacked 4 more layers on, the bottom two being a U shape, to obviously be the business end. I put a little bit of a translucent light grey decorative sand/grit on the plastic covering that hole. That looks like the ash and the coal and will light up nicely. A spot of orange paint to emphasise, and it came out better than I expected. also on another note.. mostly to self.. after buying some black foamboard to not have to redo white spots after blackbombing, I facepalmed myself for not considering that adding the coloration medium to make that stuff black, might make the paper really really hard to get off, contrary to their white product, that just jumps off on it's own if you yell at it loud enough.. dohhhhh. |
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Post by frederickthemad on Jul 14, 2019 17:06:11 GMT
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Post by sgtslag on Jul 15, 2019 0:16:27 GMT
"Tim! Where have you been all these decades?!? I thought maybe the Rabbit got you. That, or, perhaps you had, 'been naughty in mine sight, shalt snuff it!' Not a big fan of the Holy Hand Grenade. Tim... Glad to see you're still alive. Whew! What a load off my shoulders, Dude!"
LOL! Tim the Magician. Love it! One of the greatest gags, ever. Tim... Cheers!
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Post by frederickthemad on Jul 15, 2019 18:41:53 GMT
Ah hae bin awa' training African swallows tae carry coconuts tae englain fur neigh oan decades, they're nae easy tae train y'know. Tis easier tae train a rabid killer bunny nae tae tak' a poo in it's cave..  |
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Thanks so much for your kind words!!
Cheers!
Cheers!